Where is this building?
Fujian tulou was formed in Song and Yuan Dynasties. After the development in the middle and early Ming Dynasty, it gradually matured in the late Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and it has continued to this day. Fujian tulou is a unique large-scale rammed earth residential building in mountainous areas in the world, and it is a creative masterpiece of adobe architecture. Fujian tulou is built on the mountain with reasonable layout. It absorbs the concept of "Feng Shui" in China's traditional architectural planning (see Dong Bin's Modern Feng Shui Mirror), adapts to the living and defense requirements of people living together, and skillfully uses the narrow flat land in the mountains and local raw soil, wood, pebbles and other building materials. It is a self-contained, economical, strong and defensive high-rise building type with great aesthetic feeling.
In the 1980s, the earth buildings in Nanjing County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province and Yongding County, Longyan City were mistaken by Americans for mushroom-shaped nuclear weapons. As everyone knows, before the first atomic bomb mushroom cloud flew, this unique large-scale rammed earth residential building, which had been produced since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, had stood on a piece of land of more than 600 square kilometers in southwest Fujian for centuries.
On July 6th, 2008, at the 32nd World Heritage Conference held in Quebec City, China "Fujian Tulou" was officially listed in the World Heritage List.